Irish author Paul Lynch wins the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel 'Prophet Song'.
Books & Authors
Paul Lynch, who is an Irish author, won the 2023 Booker Prize for his fifth novel 'Prophet Song'. Lynch is the fifth Irish writer to win the award, while the last Irish writer Anna Burns won the award in 2018. The Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the same name written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The book's story is set in a fictional future Ireland that descends into an oppressive regime. The story tells that the civil war caused the families to flee Ireland. The story focuses on an alternate Dublin where members of a newly formed secret police established by the government move towards totalitarianism. The main character Eilish is a microbiologist who cares for her four children and her elderly father during the civil war after her husband disappears. Eilish's husband, a senior official of the Irish Teachers Union, goes into hiding when the secret police knock on their door.
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